The 1992 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the

1992 United States presidential election The 1992 United States presidential election was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, independent ...

. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts was won by

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Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas with 47.54% of the popular vote over incumbent Republican President

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of Texas with 29.03%. Independent businessman

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of Texas finished in third, with 22.80% of the popular vote. Clinton thus defeated Bush in the state with a margin of 18.52%. Massachusetts weighed in as a solid 13% more Democratic than the national average in 1992. Bush failed to carry a single county in the state, and his 29.03% of the vote was the smallest vote share a Republican presidential candidate had received in Massachusetts since

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. Clinton's decisive win in Massachusetts solidified the state's status in the modern era as a solid blue state. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since

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, and a Democratic stronghold since

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. In

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, Massachusetts was the only state in the nation to vote for Democrat

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over Republican Richard Nixon in his 49-state landslide. However the state had trended Republican in the 1980s, with

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narrowly winning the state and

taking a solid 45% and winning 3 counties in

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. In 1992, Clinton not only carried the state by a double-digit margin, leaving Bush with less than 30% of the vote, but Clinton also swept every county in the state, as secular liberal New England rejected an increasingly

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and conservative Republican Party dominated by Evangelical Christians. Since then, every Democratic presidential candidate that followed has carried the state by double-digit margins and won all 14 counties in Massachusetts. As of 2021, this is the last time that the town of Berlin voted Republican and the last time that the towns of

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, Peru, and

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did not vote Democratic in a presidential election.

Results

(a) Howard Phillips was the candidate of the U.S. Taxpayers' Party nationally.

Results by Congressional district

Clinton won all 11 Congressional districts.

Results by county

Results by municipality

Massachusetts presidential election, 1992

References

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1992 Massachusetts elections

Results

Results by Congressional district

Results by county

Results by municipality

See also

References